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Friday, February 02, 2018

finish it up Friday, 2-2-18

Welcome to finish it up Friday!

This week I finished my business taxes, which is probably the happiest finish of the whole entire year!!!! (Can I hear a "you betcha"?) That means that I've had very little time for sewing, which really stinks, but it's got to get better soon. (That's what I keep telling myself, anyway.) I worked on my log cabin blocks for a little bit last Saturday and I have 70/132 blocks complete, which feels AMAZING! I'm going to try to push through and get them all made instead of putting this project back in hibernation. ﻿We shall see... (Measurements for the log cabin blocks can be found here.)

Yesterday morning I finished up this cheery dishtowel (tutorial here) in a few minutes. I had the patchwork strip mostly finished....I just had to add one more block to the strip and then assemble it. (More "cleaning up the slow way"!) Making one dishtowel at a time sure beats making 14 at a time, like I did here. For this version, I used 2" x 2 1/2" rectangles and then I pressed the patchwork down 1/2", so the patchwork is smaller (and cuter). You can use any size pieces you'd like, which is part of the fun! This is scrap project #196.

That's it for me this week! Please link up your finishes. Thank you, as always, for joining me for finish it up Friday! Have a great weekend!

Uugh...tax time! But your log cabin blocks are so cheery and I like them a lot. Thanks for the reminder about the dishtowel embellishment. I liked the idea in the original post but still have not done it.

Ugh, taxes! I have all of my business expenses entered through October so I still have November and December to finish. Then on to the taxes. No fun at all. You must feel so good to have that checked off the list!

A finish is a finish and we all hate doing taxes, right? A question for you: Do you have any advice for quilting a queen size quilt on a home machine? I don't think I've done one quite this big before and I'm a little intimidated by it. I can't afford a long armer though.

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